The Dove by Victoria Vale

Author:Victoria Vale
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: 0
Published: 2018-03-21T06:32:20+00:00

CHAPTER NINE

aphne came awake, a sudden change in the atmosphere disturbing her sound sleep. She was not certain what it was, but once her eyes opened, she couldn’t close them again—despite the room still being quite dark. Obviously, she had not slept for long, as the moon loomed outside the nearest window, and she could still feel the effects of Adam’s torment. Her arse throbbed like the devil, her channel swollen and sated from his claiming. Her inner thighs were still slick with his seed.

When he’d finished with her, she hadn’t had the strength to rise from the bed and clean herself up, to put her clothes back on and run as far and fast from him as possible. So, she’d simply lain there and allowed him to maneuver her under the bedclothes. Then, he’d slid in behind her, one arm tight and possessive around her waist as she’d sunk into unconsciousness. For the first time since returning to London, she’d slept soundly, peacefully, without the sorts of dreams that had previously awakened her each morning in a cold sweat.

After all, she did not need to dream of her monster any longer … not when he occupied the same bed as her, his big body curled around her like a shelter against the storm. A storm of his own creation.

She was absolutely mad. That must be the only reason she could lie in his arms and accept the things he’d done, the things he’d said, the threats he’d hurled at her concerning Robert. A normal woman would have been disgusted by his crudeness, alarmed by his claim that he would kill Robert if she wed him. Yet, that part of her … the part she kept hidden in the dark recesses of her soul, had reveled in such primal lust. It stretched like a cat being scratched, arching its back and purring with pleasure at the thought of being wanted to the point of such insanity.

Murder. Adam was willing to commit murder to keep anyone else from having her. Even now, despite the soreness in her body, the signs of her own lust began to rise to the surface—her nipples pebbling into tight buds, her cunt clenching from wanting him back inside her. Her own moisture slicked the way, mingling with what he’d left behind.

Turning onto her back, she issued a deep sigh at the reminder of what he’d done. She had been so out of sorts, she hadn’t even offered a protest when he’d seated himself inside of her and spilled his mettle, flooding her insides with possession and life.

Could she, even now, be with child? The notion terrified her to no end. If she bore his child, then there would be one more thread tying her, Adam, and Bertram together … one new way that she could be exploited by either of them to get back at the other.

Whether she turned out pregnant or not, she needed to get away from them both—away from London and the scorn of the ton.

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